BAYVIL [Beifil,Y]

"BAYVILL, a parish, in the union of CARDIGAN, hundred of KEMMES, county of PEMBROKE, SOUTH WALES, 3 miles (E.N.E.) from Newport; containing 130 inhabitants. This small parish, which is situated in the northern part of the county, and within a short distance of the coast, is intersected by a tributary stream, which rises to the north of the church,and falls into the river Nevern near its influx into the sea at Newport bay: the tateable annual value is returned at £658. The living is a discharged vicarage, consolidated with that of Moylgrove, rated in the king's books at £5, and endowed with £800 royal bounty; net income, £244; improprietors, the Landowners. The church is dedicated to St Andrew. There is a place of worship for Independents." [From
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (S. Lewis, 1844).]

St Andrew, Bayvil - on the Friends of Friendless Churches site "St Andrew's is thought to be an early nineteenth century rebuilding of a medieval church although no perceptible early fabric remains. Indeed the church is valued for its survival as a modest but evocative late Georgian Anglican box with Gothick windows, and a completely intact, single chamber interior................."

Some church and chapel data from
The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 1, South Wales. Ed. by
I.G Jones, & D. Williams. UWP,
Cardiff, 1976. The names are those of the informants

Bayvill Parish Church, consolidated with the Parish Church of Moylgrove David Evan Morgan, Minister

College Green (Yr Hen Gapel), in Felindre [Independent, 1810]. Records ; see Brynberian SN10073907 Built 1791, rebuilt in 1810, in 1857 converted to a Sunday School and in the later C19 to a vestry. Still in use 1993 Coflein

Cana Ind chapel,
Felindre SN10053901 Built 1810, rebuilt 1856-7 Coflein On Dyfed FHS Shown as still open on the Union of Welsh Independents site (Dec 2006)Rees, Thomas & John Thomas.
Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru(History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). Here is the entry from this book for this chapel (in Welsh
) - with translation

Dyfed FHS have published a series of indexes of baptisms, marriages and burials from Pembrokeshire hundreds for various periods.

Rowland, H.J.
A genealogical sketch of the posterity of John Rowland of Rhosybayvil, parish of Bayvil, Pembroke, Wales and afterwards of East Whiteland, Chester Co., Pa. (1893), Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms International (1993). [(Genealogy and local history ; G5570)]